Latest Round of Internet Viruses Causing Suspicious Emails

November 2005

The latest round of the viruses MyDoom, Bagle, and Netsky are now sending out emails that appear to originate from many places for they choose to "spoof" the "from" address by pulling information from emails you have received, your email address book, and more. 

Unfortunately, this can result in innocent customers receiving emails that may appear to originate from here.  It is even more unfortunate that the creators of these viruses spoof the from addresses, and then relay the mail out using anonymous mail servers - so its not like we can even stop the mails from being sent because they never touch our mail servers.

The latest round addresses users as "users of hexatec.com" and attempts to tell you that your email has been infected or it attempts to entice you to open a password protected attachment.   DO NOT OPEN SUSPICIOUS EMAIL.

We run the latest versions of a variety of anti-virus protection on our mail servers and on all servers and desktops in our organisation.  All steps are taken to insure that virus protection profiles are kept current automatically, for your protection and ours.  We take anti-virus protection very seriously in all of our operations.

If you have any questions or concerns, you are welcome to contact us and ask about anything you have received. Our contact information is on our Home page.

You can learn more about the nature of these viruses at:

http://www.norton.com/

http://us.mcafee.com/

We encourage all of our users to insure they have the most current virus protection on their computers and do not open suspicious attachments.